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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Blame in reverse
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Usual "git blame" starts from the latest revision and finds where each
> line came from (i.e. who came up with that brilliant idea, or more often
> who introduced that bug).  This new mode starts from an old revision, and
> annotates in reverse --- up to which point each line survived, before it
> got replaced with something else. 

Nice!! Is the result somehow different from

	$ git rev-list --reverse HEAD > /tmp/blame.revs
	$ git blame -S /tmp/blame.revs foo.c

?

-- Hannes